The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.

There's people on the left who say, the ballot box is a waste of time. Forget them. When Mandela voted for the first time at the age of 76 there was a lot of grown men, including me, wept buckets. That was what it was about. It doesn't solve things, but it gives you the mechanism to hold to account the people with power.

When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.

It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.

Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once

In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said